Dan Tamayo

I am interested in all areas of celestial mechanics, particularly in resonant phenomena and chaos. Thus far, my research has mostly been
applied to the dynamics of dust grains collisionally generated by the irregular satellites of the giant planets. It turns out this dust creates
the largest circumplanetary rings in the Solar System (over 100 times the radial extent of Saturn's main rings)!
My Research section expounds on these interests and work.

Also make sure to check out my Teaching section! I'm really interested in what separates outstanding
teachers from average ones, and am always trying to get better!

Finally, I'm really excited about an open-source project I'm working on called OGRE (Orbital GRaphics Environment). It's a program that enables
you to load output files from numerical integrators commonly used in academia (e.g., SWIFT), interactively look through
the simulation, and generate movies for insertion into professional and public presentations. Check it out on the
OGRE page!